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"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy."
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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
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"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."
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"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."
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"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
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"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
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"Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it."
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"Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach."
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"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
Life
"Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women!"
Love
"I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all."
Motivation
"A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved."
Art
"And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon."
Nature
"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy."
Creativity
"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."
Temptation
"Snap your fingerstop the world - rain falls harder."
Observation
"The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles."
Life
"If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings."
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